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Superabsorbent Polymers — An Additive to Increase the Freeze-Thaw Resistance of ... - lisine - 08-11-2012 Superabsorbent Polymers — An Additive to Increase the Freeze-Thaw Resistance of High Strength Concrete Author: Sven Mönnig, Pietro Lura | Size: 0.28 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Original preprint | Publisher: Advances in Construction Materials 2007, Part V, | Year: 2007 | pages: 351-358
This paper presents the results of freeze thaw resistance tests performed on a reference mixture and a mixture with superabsorbent polymer (SAP) addition. The SAP mixture showed 40% less scaling than the reference mixture and a slight increase of the compressive strength. A simulation performed with the Hard Core Soft Shell model (HCSS) explains the good performance of the SAP mixture with the formation of a number of small, spherical and closely-spaced voids within the cement paste, which have the same function as air entrainment. Code: *************************************** This is paper is part of the Advances in Construction Materials 2007 which can be found here Code: *************************************** |